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Connor M. French

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Education

PhD Candidate, Biology- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

New York, New York

City University of New York

current - 2018

  • Population genetic patterns and processes from local to global scales
  • Graduate Center Digital Fellow

M.S., Zoology

Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University

2018 - 2016

  • Systematics, phylogeography, and landscape genetics of the Ameerega petersi group (family Dendrobatidae)
  • Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab

B.S., Biology- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Austin, Texas

University of Texas

2015 - 2011

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Michael J. Hickerson Lab

City University of New York

current - 2018

  • Investigating evolutionary responses to environmental change across spatial scales.

Graduate Research Assistant

Jason L. Brown Lab

Southern Illinois University

2018 - 2016

  • Completed thesis work on the evolution of Andean poison frogs.

Research Assistant

Texas Biodiversity Collections

University of Texas

2016 - 2016

  • Herpetology Division
  • Supported data collection and collections management for conservation efforts.

Undergraduate Researcher

Daniel I. Bolnick Lab

University of Texas

2014 - 2013

  • Completed an independent project through the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates. Experimental design, field work in British Columbia, lab work, data analysis, and first-author publication.

Undergraduate Researcher

David Cannatella Lab

University of Texas

2014 - 2013

  • Field work in support of frog acoustic research.

Field Technician

Middlesex, Belize

Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society

2014 - 2014

  • Designed and executed field protocols for monitoring amphibian populations.

Collections Assistant

Texas Biodiversity Collections

University of Texas

2014 - 2014

  • Ichthyology Division
  • Collected and analyzed fish morphometric data for taxonomic research and digitized research collections.




Teaching Experience

NA

R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis

Columbia University

New York, NY

2021 - 2021

  • Invited workshop.
  • Half-day online workshop as part of the Pre-Statistics Course Bootcamp.
  • Facilitated by Software Carpentries.

Introduction to Text Analysis in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2021 - 2021

  • 1.5 hour online workshop for CUNY Graduate Center faculty and students.
  • Hosted on rstudio.cloud.
  • Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows.

Digital Research Institute

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2021 - 2020

  • Five day series of workshops introducing CUNY faculty and students to digital tools for research.
  • Two sessions- one in January 2020 and one in February 2021.
  • Led the R track.

Reproducible Data Analysis in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

  • 2.5 hour workshop on using RMarkdown and github for reproducible data analysis.
  • Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
  • Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

Data Visualization in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

  • 2.5 hour workshop on using ggplot2 for data visualization.
  • Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
  • Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

Exploring population structure in R with adegenet and sNMF

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

  • 1.5 hour online workshop given to an international group of evolutionary biology faculty and graduate students as part of the four day Bioinformatics Bootcamp for Ecology and Evolution.

Introduction to R and RStudio

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

  • Two hour online workshop for CUNY Graduate Center faculty and students.
  • Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows.

Introduction to population structure inference in R

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2019 - 2019

  • Invited workshop.
  • Two hour workshop for Zoology graduate and undergraduate students.

Introductory R and RStudio

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

  • Invited workshop.
  • 1.5 hour workshop for graduate students in the Quantitative Zoogeography graduate course.

Bioinformatic processing of ultraconserved elements for phylogenetic analysis

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2019 - 2019

  • Two hour workshop to introduce graduate students to a bioinformatic pipeline.

SLiM 5-day workshop

CUNY Biology Department

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

  • Co-organized five full-day workshop on SLiM population genetic simulation program

Data Wrangling in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

  • 2.5 hour workshop on using the tidyverse for data manipulation.
  • Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
  • Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

BioSkills

SIUC Biology Department

Carbondale, IL

2018 - 2017

  • TA, BIO 212
  • Co-developed material for new writing and discussion-based course section.
  • Concurrently ran ecology and developmental biology sections.

Introduction to Evolution and Ecology Lab

SIUC Biology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

  • TA, BIO 212
  • Led and prepared labs.

Vertebrate Anatomy Lab

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

  • TA, ZOOL 418
  • Led and prepared labs.
  • Advised undergraduate lab assistant.

Reptile and amphibian survey and capture techniques

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

  • Invited lecture, Curation of Collections (PLB 401).
  • One hour lecture on best practices for herpetological surveys.

Appropriate techniques for identifying and handling reptiles and amphibians in the field.

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

  • Invited lecture, SIUC Wildlife Techniques (ZOOL 469).
  • One hour lecture and field demonstration on best practices for herpetological surveys.

Introductory Biology for Non-Majors Lab

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2016 - 2016

  • TA, ZOOL 115
  • Led and prepared labs.

Instructor

Camp Einstein Afterschool STEM Program

Austin, TX

2016 - 2016

  • Summer afterschool program for early elementary school students.

Biostatistics

UT Biology Department

Austin, TX

2015 - 2014

  • Undergraduate TA
  • Assisted graduate TA with leading and grading R programming labs, and facilitating course discussion.

Selected Data Science Writing

NA

Sonification for Data Communication

gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu

New York, NY

2021

  • Post introducing the concept of sonification, its uses, and its benefits.

RStudio Cloud for Education

gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu

New York, NY

2020

  • Post outlining the advantages of using the RStudio Cloud system for teaching.

PDIG Training Grant Spotlight: Connor French

gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu

New York, NY

2019

  • Overview of a project I used the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant to prepare for.

Interactively explore geographic data in R using leaflet

gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu

New York, NY

2019

  • Walk through of creating an interactive map in R.

Selected Publications

Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Amazonian poison frog genus Ameerega using ultraconserved genomic elements

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 142, 106638.

N/A

2020

  • Wilson, G.X., French, C.M., Twomey, E.M., Chávez, G., Prates, I, von May, R., la Riva, I.D., Lötters, S., Reichle, S., Serrano-Rojas, S.J., Whitworth, A., Brown, J.L.

Speciation with introgression: Phylogeography and systematics of the Ameerega petersi group (Dendrobatidae).

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 138, 31-42.

N/A

2019

  • French, C.M., Deutsch, M.S., Chávez G., Almora C.E., Brown, J.L.

The tadpole of Ameerega boehmei in southeastern Bolivia

Zootaxa. 4661, 1.

N/A

2019

  • French, C.M., Burkette, C., Reichle, S., Brown, J.L.

Geographical variation in colour of female threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

PeerJ. 6:e4807.

N/A

2018

  • French, C.M., Ingram, T., and Bolnick, D.I.

Rana juliani. Vocalization.

Mesoamerican Herpetology. 4(1). pp. 170.

N/A

2017

  • French, C.M., Kilborn, V., and Jäger, K.L.

Diadophis punctatus regalis (Regal Ringneck Snake). DIET.

Herpetological Review. 48(2). pp. 448.

N/A

2017

  • French, C.M.

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation python-based: GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses.

PeerJ. 5:e4095.

N/A

2017

  • Brown, J.L., Bennett, J., and French, C.M.

Selected Talks and Posters

Determinants of the global distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial insects

New York Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group

N/A

2021

  • Invited presentation.
  • Presented recent research online to an international group of scientists.